Re: Newbie structured wiring question

[Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:14:02PM +0100, Martin Chambers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just started wiring a my self-build house and it's come to
decision time re the structured wiring. My current thinking is to adopt the
Cris system as I want to keep costs down. However, their audio setup
differs quite a bit from, say, IPHomenet. Cris has speaker wire to+from
in-room volume control with separate IR receivers connected with cat5.
IPHomenet uses cat5 to in-room volume control which also incorporates IR
receiver - which appears neater. My main question is, can I mix and match?
i.e. will the IPHomenet audio hub fit into the Cris cabinet? A secondary
question is, are both systems pushing the same signal to their respective
volume controls (which both include amplifiers) or are they doing things a
different way?
>
> tia Martin

Hi Martin,

I can't give you any specific advice on either of the systems you mention,
but hopefully this reply will prompt some of the users to pipe up :-)

I seem to remember that the IPHomenet is NOT 19" rackmount, but it is
19" if you see what I mean? Because of this I would doubt you could
mount it in a Cris cabinet, that's assuming they are "standard"
19" rack cabs too.

Have you searched the ukhe archive at www.ukha-archive.com ? It's definatly
this list where I read the above.

Failing that, email the suppliers direct and ask them ...

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-S